USS Long Beach (AK-9)

USS Long Beach in dry dock in Brest, France in 1918
History
Name	1892: Yarrowdale 1902: Nicolaos Castriotis 1905: Hohenfelde 1917: Long Beach 1923: Golden Gate
Owner	1892: Mackill Steamship Co 1902: CN Castriotti 1905: D Furhmann, Nissle & Günther Nachflg 1917: US Shipping Board 1922: Long Beach SS Corp 1924: Golden Gate Nav Inc
Operator	1892: R Mackill & Co 1917: United States Navy
Port of registry	1892: Glasgow 1902: Piraeus 1905: Hamburg 1924: Wilmington
Builder	Wm Pickersgill & Sons, Southwick
Yard number	101
Launched	5 October 1892
Completed	November 1892
Acquired	seized by USSB, 6 April 1917
Commissioned	into US Navy, 20 December 1917
Decommissioned	from US Navy, 26 April 1921
Identification	UK official number 99857 1892: code letters MVBN 1905: code letters RNMF 1917: Hull symbol ID-2136 Hull symbol AK-9 1922: US official number 22376 code letters MDRQ
Fate	scrapped, October 1924
General characteristics
Type	cargo ship
Tonnage	2,980 GRT, 1,908 NRT
Displacement	5,800 tons
Length	320.1 ft (97.6 m)
Beam	41.4 ft (12.6 m)
Draught	22 ft 0 in (6.7 m)
Depth	21.2 ft (6.5 m)
Decks	1
Installed power	265 NHP
Propulsion	triple expansion engine
Speed	8+1⁄2 knots (15.7 km/h)
Complement	(in US Navy): 104
Armament	(in US Navy): 1 × 3-inch/50-caliber gun 2 × machine guns

USS Long Beach (AK-9) was a cargo steamship that was built in England in 1892 as Yarrowdale, passed through a succession of British, Greek and German owners, and was seized by the United States in 1917. She served in the US Navy until 1921, then in the US Merchant Marine, and was scrapped in 1924. She was called Nicolaos Castriotis in Greek ownership, Hohenfelde in German ownership, and Golden Gate from 1923.